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Broadcast area | Pittsburgh metropolitan area |
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| Frequency | 96.9 MHz (HD Radio) |
| Branding | 96.9 Bob FM |
| Programming | |
| Language | English |
| Format | Variety hits |
| Subchannels |
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| Affiliations | Washington Wild Things |
| Ownership | |
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| WLTJ | |
| History | |
First air date | June 1959 |
Former call signs |
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Call sign meaning | "Rock" (former format and branding) |
| Technical information[1] | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
| 72333 | |
| Class | B |
| ERP | 45,000 watts |
| HAAT | 162 meters (531 ft) |
Transmitter coordinates | 40°24′42.2″N 79°55′52.2″W / 40.411722°N 79.931167°W |
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Public license information | |
| Webcast | Listen live |
| Website | www |
WRRK (96.9 FM) is a commercial radio station licensed to Braddock, Pennsylvania, and serving the Pittsburgh metropolitan area. It airs a variety hits radio format, known as "96.9 BOB-FM" with studios on McKnight Road in Pittsburgh's North Hills. WRRK is owned by Saul Frischling and his family, through licensee WPNT Media Subsidiary, LLC, identified on the website as Steel City Media.[2]
WRRK has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 45,000 watts, its transmitter is located off Longview Street in the Hazelwood neighborhood. WRRK broadcasts using HD Radio technology, its three subchannels carry sports gambling, variety and oldies formats.
In November 1957, Matta Broadcasting Company applied for a construction permit from the Federal Communications Commission to build a new FM station. Matta owned an AM station, 1550 WLOA (now WZUM), also licensed to Braddock. It was granted the permit in February 1958. The station signed on the air as WLOA-FM in June 1959.[3] Transmitter facilities were located on a hill just northeast of Braddock. Studios were co-located with the AM station at 1233 Braddock Avenue in Braddock.
As WLOA was a daytime-only station at the time, its new FM sister provided nighttime radio service after the AM was required to sign off at local sunset. The rest of the day, the two stations mostly simulcast their programming, with formats varying between easy listening and adult contemporary.
Station co-founder William G. Matta died in 1971. The stations were transferred from his estate to William J. Matta and Mrs. E.R. Matta in 1973. William J. Matta took sole ownership of the station in 1975. The station underwent a format change in 1977 to "soft rock"—a hybrid of Top 40 and adult contemporary music. The call sign changed to WFFM, adopting the moniker "FM 97." In 1979, the station modified its call letters to WFFM-FM (as its AM sister adopted those same calls), and then reverted to WFFM again in May 1981, receiving permission from the FCC five months later to dually identify its community of license as "Braddock-Pittsburgh".
In May 1982, Matta Broadcasting Company sold WFFM and its AM sister station WCKG to Benns Communications. WFFM changed its call sign to WHYW with the new ownership.
In 1985, WHYW began featuring classic rock from 7 p.m. to midnight while retaining the soft rock format from 5 a.m. to 7 p.m. It also played jazz overnight, and maintaining its "Y-97 FM" identity. In March 1986 the station went to 24-hour classic rock. At that point, Benns changed the call sign to WMYG and the station referred to itself as "Magic Y-97 FM" (it shortened the brand to simply "Magic 97 FM" later that year).
In 1991, the station switched to a current-based album rock format, and the call letters were changed to WRRK, taking on the branding "97 Rock." (WRRK was previously the call sign of a top 40/rock station in Manistee, Michigan.) When Legend Communications bought the station in 1993, the classic rock format was resurrected, but the station retained the WRRK call letters and identified itself as "Magic 97 WRRK." The format lasted for 13 years, as "Channel 97" and "97 RRK."
On November 1, 2005, WRRK flipped to adult hits as "96.9 BOB-FM."[4] BOB-FM is usually ranked among Pittsburgh's most listened-to stations in the Nielsen ratings.[5]
WRRK broadcasts using HD Radio technology. Its subchannels previously featured spin-offs of the main format, with HD2 carrying "Bob's B-Sides", HD3 carrying "Bob's Malt Shop" (an oldies format focusing on music from the 1950s and 1960s), and HD4 carrying "Stay Tuned" (featuring television and movie theme music).
On February 11, 2022, WRRK-HD2 flipped to sports talk as Bet Sports Radio, carrying programming from the Vegas Stats & Information Network (VSiN).[6]
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WRRK (96.9 FM) is a commercial radio station licensed to Braddock, Pennsylvania, and serving the Pittsburgh metropolitan area. It airs a variety hits radio format, known as "96.9 BOB-FM" with studios on McKnight Road in Pittsburgh's North Hills. WRRK is owned by Saul Frischling and his family, through licensee WPNT Media Subsidiary, LLC, identified on the website as Steel City Media. WRRK has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 45,000 watts, its transmitter is located off Longview Street in the Hazelwood neighborhood. WRRK broadcasts using HD Radio technology, its three subchannels carry sports gambling, variety and oldies formats.
WMLQ (97.7 FM, "News 97 & 98") is a radio station located in Manistee, Michigan broadcasting a news/talk format, simulcasting WLDN 98.7 FM Ludington. The station began broadcasting in 1970 under the WMTE-FM call sign (the current WMTE-FM, at 101.5, is unrelated, but was a sister station of WMLQ for a short time in 2012 and 2013). In the 1980s, the station was WRRK, playing Top 40 music. From 1995 to 2006, the station simulcast WVXU in Cincinnati, Ohio as WVXM, an affiliate of the "X-Star Radio Network," which featured a variety of programs, including news, talk, jazz, and adult standards. After WVXU was sold to the owners of classical station WGUC in Cincinnati, all of WVXA's former repeater stations were sold off to other owners; 97.7 FM was purchased by Synergy Media, owners of classic rock station WWKR in Hart, Michigan. Synergy Media has installed a commercial Soft AC/Oldies/Easy Listening format on 97.7 FM as "The Coast." The WMLQ calls were formerly used in the 1980s and 1990s at an FM station in Rogers City, Michigan, which coincidentally also operated on the 97.7 FM frequency (it later moved to 96.7) and also played an AC format, under the name "Mello-Q." Also coincidentally, the original WMLQ in Rogers City later became WVXA, also an X-Star Radio Network affiliate; it is now WRGZ and simulcasts WATZ-FM, a commercial country music station in Alpena, Michigan. On February 1, 2016, WMLQ switched to a simulcast of news/talk-formatted WLDN 98.7 FM Ludington. The "Coast FM" format is now heard on 101.5 WMTE-FM. The station airs The Steve Gruber Show, the flagship program for The Michigan Talk Network, on delay, in late mornings.
WDVE (102.5 FM) is a classic rock music-formatted radio station in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, at 102.5 MHz. It is often referred to by Pittsburghers as simply "DVE". Its studios and offices are located on Abele Rd. in Bridgeville next to I-79, along with its sister stations. Its transmitter is located on Pittsburgh's North Side. Since 2006, the station has been the highest-rated radio station in the Pittsburgh market, surpassing longtime market leader KDKA. The station is currently owned by iHeartMedia, and (along with WBGG) serves as the flagship radio station of the Pittsburgh Steelers radio network. WDVE is designated a superpower station by the Federal Communications Commission. The station's effective radiated power of 55,000 watts exceeds the maximum limit set by the FCC for a Class B FM radio station. WDVE uses HD Radio and broadcasts a sports format on its HD2 subchannel branded as Steelers Nation Radio.
Jim Quinn (February 26, 1943 – March 29, 2025) was an American conservative radio talk show host based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, who hosted Quinn in the Morning on WYSL in Avon, New York, and WAVL in Apollo, Pennsylvania. Until its cancellation in November 2013, his program The War Room with Quinn and Rose was aired on 12 stations across the U.S. and was also heard on XM Satellite Radio Channel 244 from 6 a.m. to 9 a.m. Eastern Time, Monday through Friday.
Before the 1921 destruction of Tulsa’s Greenwood District, Black residents had created a remarkable center of business and community life. The district included stores, professional offices, entertainment venues and homes owned by Black citizens. Understanding Greenwood means learning what was built—not only what was burned.
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